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G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
In 1907 Mahler's life was shaken by several fateful blows: he had to give up his post as Director of the Court Opera due to mounting differences between himself and the Viennese musical world and to anti-Semitic animosities, his beloved daughter Maria Anna died harrowingly of diphtheria and he... 
Rafael Kubelik | Janet Baker | Waldemar Kmentt
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
"In short, in a work that doesn't lack for excellent recordings this one stands among the best, and I won't argue with anyone who comes away from this performance convinced that there are none better." (Classics Today, Artistic/Sound Quality: 10/10)
G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (08:37)
- Der Einsame im Herbst (09:34)
- Von der Jugend (03:09)
- Von der Schönheit (06:38)
- Der Trunkene im Frühling (04:23)
- Der Abschied (29:34)
In 1907 Mahler's life was shaken by several fateful blows: he had to give up his post as Director of the Court Opera due to mounting differences between himself and the Viennese musical world and to anti-Semitic animosities, his beloved daughter Maria Anna died harrowingly of diphtheria and he himself was diagnosed as having a serious heart ailment that made him think of his own impending death. A collection of poetry by the writer Hans Bethge exercised a special fascination upon him in this fragile state. "The Chinese Flute," a collection of 80 poems based on old Chinese sources, centres upon the themes of beauty and melancholy, excessive drunkenness and sudden consciousness of life's transitory nature. Mahler selected seven poems and created six musical pictures out of them (the "Farewell" puts two pictures together) for tenor voice, alto voice and orchestra. With "Das Lied von der Erde" (The Song of the Earth) he succeeded in a total fusion of the vocal and the symphonic. He himself called the Song of the Earth "the most personal thing I have ever written."
Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra explore Mahler's expressivity to the depths here as they have already done in many symphonies issued by audite, in all of its facets and without falling into hollow pathos. Karl Schumann wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "The Orchestra played like a single organism of hundred soloists, all centred round the conductor's desk." (2 March 1970) The soloists, Janet Baker and Waldemar Kmentt, succeed in this balancing act with bravura as well. The work is issued in a live recording made in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz on 27 February 1970.
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Badische Zeitung
| Heinz W. Koch | November 18, 2003
... Wie spezifisch, ja wie radikal sich Gielens Mahler ausnimmt, erhellt schlagartig, wenn man Rafael Kubeliks dreieinhalb Jahrzehnte alte und vor...
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Classic Record Collector
| Christopher Breunig | January 10, 2002
The German firm Audite has given us not only this near complete live cycle of Mahler symphonies (sans 4 or 8), but valuable Kubelik/Curzon readings of...
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Das Orchester
| Johannes Killyen | January 3, 2003
Um eines von Gustav Mahlers großen Werken neu auf dem übersättigten...
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Diapason
| Jean-Charles Hoffele | January 9, 2002
Deutsche Gramophon ne permit pas à Kubelik d’enregistrer « Le Chant de la terre », qui aurait constitué le point d’orgue de son cycle Mahler ;...
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Die Rheinpfalz
| Gerhard Tetzlaf | December 2, 2003
Idealer Interpret – Livemitschnitte unter Rafael Kubelik
Die Gesamtaufnahme der Sinfonien Gustav Mahlers durch Rafael Kubelik und sein Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, die Anfang der siebziger... -
Flensborg Avis
| Lars Geerdes | September 4, 2003
Skelsættende tysk Mahlerindspilning genudgivet
Live-optagelse fra 1970 kan nu købes på cd
Da dirigenten Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996) i 1961 tiltrådte stillingen som chefdirigent for Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, var den... -
Fono Forum
| Christian Wildhagen | January 11, 2002
Glücksgriff
Dieser Live-Mitschnitt stellt eine echte Erweiterung der Kubelik-Diskographie dar, denn "Das Lied von der Erde" fehlt in seinem Studio-Mahler-Zyklus.... -
Gramophone
| Rob Cowan | January 10, 2003
Kubelik takes the Stage
Some years ago I was involved in a discussion concerning Wilhelm Furtwängler's potential artistic heir. Who might he be? There was no lack of... -
Gramophone
| Richard Fairman | January 9, 2002
Das Lied live from two great Mahler conductors‚ more spontaneous sounding than their studio versions
Audite is in the process of assembling a complete Mahler cycle with Kubelík and the Bavarian RSO from radio relays. So far the recordings date across... -
International Record Review
| Christopher Breuning | January 10, 2002
The German firm Audite has given us not only this near complete live cycle of Mahler symphonies (sans 4 or 8), but valuable Kubelik/Curzon readings of...
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klassik-heute.com
| Mario Gerteis | February 12, 2002
In der ersten Mahler-Welle auf (Stereo-)Schallplatten spielte der sinfonische Zehnerzyklus von Rafael Kubelik eine bedeutende Rolle. In dieser...
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klassik.com
| Erik Daumann | December 19, 2002
Das Label ‚audite’ des Diplom-Tonmeisters Ludger Böckenhoff aus...
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Nordsee-Zeitung
| Sebastian Loskant | August 3, 2003
Es war ein Tscheche, der den Münchenern den Spätromantiker Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Ende der 1960er Jahre nahebrachte. Rafael Kubelik, der Emigrant...
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Pizzicato
| Rémy Franck | January 10, 2002
Optimistisches 'Lied von der Erde'
Kubelik hat für die Deutsche Grammophon die Mahler-Symphonien aufgenommen, nicht aber 'Das Lied von der Erde'. Nachdem uns etliche der... -
Répertoire
| Gérard Belvire | January 10, 2002
Avec Bernstein, Solti et Haitink, Kubelik fait partie des chefs « historiques » qui, durant les années 60, prirent le relais des pionniers...
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Rondo
| Matthias Kornemann | October 17, 2002
Viele Dirigenten hat es am Jahrhundertende angezogen, dieses "Lied von der Erde", das intimste, kammerspielhafteste unter Mahlers seelenzerfasernden...
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Scherzo
| Enrique Pérez Adrián | January 9, 2003
Una gran versión que sin duda hará mella espiritual en cualquier oyente sensible que se acerque a ella
Mathis, Brendel, Kmentt, Baker y Kubelik - Dos nuevas dianas
Audite nos trae dos nuevos conciertos de Rafael Kubelik de los años 70, de excelente sonido original, muy cuidado en estos nuevos reprocesados con... -
Stereoplay
| Ulrich Schreiber | January 1, 2003
Marktpolitisch mag der Audite-Versuch, dem von der DG im Studio fixierten...
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The Jewish Daily Forward
| Benjamin Ivry | July 28, 2010
A Lively Musical Corpus
Gustav Mahler, Almost a Century Dead and Still Kicking
Although other composers are most suitably celebrated on the anniversaries of their births (July 7, 2010, marked Gustav Mahler’s 150th birthday), it... -
The New York Sun
| Benjamin Ivry | April 16, 2008
In Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical "Company," Elaine Stritch raspily sang a toast to the trendy "ladies who lunch," who fill their days with a...
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WDR 3
| Michael Schwalb | March 12, 2002
Hörproben-Neue CDs, am Mikrophon Michael Schwalb. Mitgebracht habe ich Ihnen den fast schon historischen Konzertmitschnitt eines Werks, das als Ikone...
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www.buch.de
| Olaf Behrens | August 7, 2002
Bisher sind nur Live-Einspielungen der Werke Mahlers unter Rafael Kubelik herausgekommen, von denen auch Studioeinspielungen des Dirigenten...
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www.ClassicsToday.com
| David Hurwitz | January 1, 2002
Rafael Kubelik never made a studio recording of Das Lied von der Erde, but even if he had I doubt it would have been better than this simply stunning...
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www.musicweb-international.com
| Tony Duggan | January 4, 2003
Here is one of the great "lost" Mahler recordings now properly restored. When Rafael Kubelik made his outstanding studio Mahler cycle in Munich for DG...
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www.new-classics.co.uk
| January 1, 2005
In this outstanding live recording dating from 1970, Rafael Kubelik conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde...
G. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (audite 95.491)
| part of the series: |
Mahler cycle with Rafel Kubelik in live recordings |
| article number: | 95.491 |
| EAN barcode: | 4022143954916 |
| price group: | BCB |
| release date: | 1. January 2002 |
| total time: | 61 min. |
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